You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. - Vaclav Havel

Applause mottos Applause quotes sayings : Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. - By Greil Marcus
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Conflict mottos Conflict quotes sayings : Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. - Joseph Roux
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